> very convincing and well-grounded in facts. The *majority* of Internet > connected devices will definitely be in the smartphone and tablet > category in the next 3 years. That does not mean they will be the *only* That's very questionable. The majority of internet connected devices *with a user interface* probably - and at the current takeup almost entirely phones. How much of a shift this really is you can debate for hours given that the phone/tablet/pc divide is IMHO essentially an artificial construction caused by current hardware limits. We don't ask "is that a phone or a watch" any more. We don't ask "Do you have a PDA and a phone" any more. In a few years time it won't make sense to ask "do you have a tablet and a PC". To me the more interesting question is how you ensure when you get home and stick your system on the charger that it backs up, switches to the fast processor on the base unit, fires up the monitors and speakers and does so seamlessly, ditto when you take it away, ditto when it's put into the car, ... > The fact of the matter is we are already seeing this happen. Smartphones > are starting to displace even desktop computers in low income families > because they are cheaper (as in $200 range), constantly connected, and > do actually handle most of the basic tasks (e-mail, basic Web, etc.) Actually if you look at pricing a second hand PC is cheaper at the base level. However it's hard to maintain like all PC systems, it needs technical poking now and then while Android has pretty much (not quite) succeeded in being a 'just works' environment along with a 'can reset and get it back' model. One of the most convincing marketing explanations I heard for all of this is that the end user PC market is finally segmenting more. It's splitting more and more clearly into groups like - I don't type a lot, I don't care and if my phone does it with the least hassle I'm sorted - I need a keyboard but otherwise don't care (traditional low end PC) - 'Power' users - technical folks, extreme gamers - My computer is a style statement > that were once solely the domain of PCs. Tablets are quickly displacing > laptops in the business world. The main barrier is that they are more I don't know where you got that from, but worldwide tablet sales hardly back that up. There is one point that is being missed though, critical to the whole argument. Try using Fedora 15 / Gnome 3 on a touchscreen - its absolutely unusable because of things like the window resizing behaviour. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
